Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proud, prolific and beloved, the House of Coburg counts among its sons British King George, Belgian King Albert, Bulgarian Tsar Boris and other European royalties too numerous to mention. Even the soil of Coburg is something special. As a wedding present the Town of Coburg last week gave a double-bottomed cradle (with Coburg soil between the bottoms) to pink and pretty Princess Sibylle Calma Maria Alicia Bathildis Feodora von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha. She seemed destined to become one day by her brilliant marriage Queen of Sweden. All Coburg was sure that as soon as he is born...
Sixty-seven royal males and their females crowded the Moritzkirche. All Germany was agog. This was the first dynastic union to take place on German soil since the Fatherland became a Republic in 1919. King George, who hides his German light under a bushel and has changed his name to Windsor, was not there. Neither were any of his sons. But His Majesty's first cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel...
...Buck's homely Pulitzer Prizewinning melodrama of Chinese life, now in its 23rd edition, will find the Guild's adaptation, which rang up the curtain on its 15th season, a brief paraphrase of the novel. Wang Lung, the hardy farmer, as greedy for more land as the soil is greedy for sun and rain, does not die at the conclusion as he does in the book. And he has not three sons given him by OLan, the big-boned, but one. It is OLan, with a hard knot in her womb from brutal child-bearing and brutal work...
Though he never left Swiss soil last week, President de Valera performed from Geneva one of the most thoroughly Irish acts of his career. By his "advice" (order) the royally appointed Governor General of the Irish Free State, James McNeill, journeyed from Dublin to London, called at Buckingham Palace, resigned. Perforce King George accepted the resignation, showed his feelings by having Mr. McNeill to lunch, keeping him at the Palace until 3 p. m. As every Irishman knows, poor Mr. McNeill has been the butt of studied Dublin insults ever since Eamon de Valera became President (TIME, March...
...Catalans can feel now they are true sons of a country rich in glorious tradition. I interpret the sentiments of all of them, when I say that Sept. 25, 1932 will be recorded on the pages of history as ushering in a reign of reason and justice on Iberian soil...